Explanation for Question 12 From the Reading Section on the 2019 October Sat
Question 12 says, according to passage, one over time, 2 personal independence day would occur later in the year because of what? 3 So let's look back in the passage at what they have to say specifically 4 about personal independence day, and then we can kind of make some conclusions based 5 on that. So the reference to personal independence day starts in line seven. 6 It says one of those ones suggested a new national holiday, 7 personal independence day. That day in the year, 8 when we stopped working to pay the expenses of government and start working to 9 pay for the items we severely and individually choose in light of our own 10 needs and desires in 1929, 11 that holiday would have come on Abraham Lincoln's birthday, 12 February 12th, today would come about May 30th. 13 If present trends were to continue, it would coincide with the other independent stage 14 of life forth around 1988. 15 So basically what these lines are saying is that personal independence day is 16 a yearly thing. 17 Obviously it's a holiday. So it would be the day in the year where 18 if you're looking at like the total income that someone's to make all the 19 year, that would be the day that all of the 20 income that they've made up to that point would pay for their taxes. 21 And then all of the income beyond that point would be for them to 22 use totally how they please so personal independence day is just the 23 day that they would make enough to pay off all of their taxes for 24 the year. And so ...